I ironically came across this awhile ago while trying to capture an image of a user (to use in a post) but, believing this to be an error on my part, I simply went on surfing Orkut like any other casual user.
It was not until Devi Mahapatra informed me about this (as well as explaining the reason behind this) that I understood this a move by Google to protect our profile images.
(Ivilla) As you know it was very unsafe to upload your original photos to orkut as they were not right click protected , any one your enemy or else could save these images to there hard drive and misuse by publishing these photos to any where or creating a fake account[.] [...]
Now when the evil will try " right click then save image as " he/she find a image file has been stored in his hard drive named as " b " and yes it is a blank file .So she/he can't misuse your photos.
This is great news for girls (some of which are harassed by immature guys) as well as those who are often hassled by internet bullies.
Devi notes in his blog post that Google has not yet provided the same protection towards Orkut albums (which may be a good idea) so users may want to with hold uploading their personal photos for the world to see.
















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I did a bookmarlet to extracted profile photos. :) Drag "Foto original" to your bookmark toolbar.
what about print screen key on the keyboard?
this is not true.. i had tried to save the pic from my friends profile and i was able to save and explore even after storing that into my hard disk. Check again..
Hey its not a blank image....
See website protect their images by putting in the transparent GIF, here ORKUT used b.gif, this is an image that is 1X1 pixel and is a transparent GIF, this makes the image of the profile in the background visible, this 1X1 GIF image is stretched to fit the place :P
The image can still be stolen frm the page source, its in a background url.
thanks for giving credits
now a new post "orkut videos are now with more navigation buttons"
take a look http://ivilla.blogspot.com/2007/05/orkut-videos-are-now-with-more.html
hey guys how are u? i just wanted to let you know that i'm ok with people that would like to add me to chat...see u all later...bjsssss
it can be done easily
go to the page source
search for
"/Profile.aspx?uid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx stands for the uid of the profile
just above it
you will find some thing like this
(div style="background-image: url(http://img4.orkut.com/images/medium/577/4739577.jpg); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 144px; height:128px;" )
and this what you want
http://img4.orkut.com/images/medium/577/4739577.jpg
the print screen button is for hitting ur bum????
dumbos!
If you want to save profile picture, just go to his/her friendlist and from their list, save his/her picture (thought its small).
plzz some one tell meh how to apply photo onn the status tab....lyk dis one
http://www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=1651975404946062695
by mistake in my album a photo has been blocked.how to unblock it...
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